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# Generate sound effect with Sonilo Video SFX

> Sonilo video-to-sound-effect — frame-accurate Foley, ambience, impacts and action sounds synced to the visible events of an input video (up to 6 minutes). Returns the SFX track (`audio_url`, MP3 or WAV) and the video with the effects mixed in (`video_url`). Priced per second of the input video's measured duration (whole seconds, 3-second minimum) — see GET /v1/models for the rate.

**Asynchronous.** Returns a job `id` (nothing is generated yet in this response). Poll [`GET /v1/audios/{id}`](/api-reference/audios/get-music-job-status) until `status` is `succeeded` — the SFX track is that response's `audio_url` and the input video with the effects mixed in is its `video_url`. Charged per second of the input video's measured duration (whole seconds, 3-second minimum; rate in `GET /v1/models`) on success only.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.yaml post /audios/sonilo-video-sfx
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  contact:
    email: support@budgetpixel.com
    name: BudgetPixel Support
  description: >
    The BudgetPixel developer API for programmatic image, video, music and

    sound-effect generation.


    Generation is **asynchronous**: you create a job, then poll its status until
    it

    reaches a terminal state (`succeeded` / `failed`). You are charged in
    credits

    only on success — never for failures, timeouts, or content blocked before

    generation.


    **Authentication.** All requests require an API key sent as a bearer token:

        Authorization: Bearer bpx_live_xxx

    Create and manage keys from your BudgetPixel account dashboard. The
    developer

    API is available on the **Premium** plan and above.


    **Pricing.** API usage is metered in credits at each model's published price

    (see `GET /v1/models`), and your plan's model discounts and active
    promotions

    apply to API charges exactly as they do on the web — `POST /v1/cost` quotes

    your discounted price. Pro and Ultra plans include a daily free-models

    allowance (a shared pool of free generations per day across qualified image

    models such as FLUX 2 Klein and Qwen-Image) that covers API

    requests too — the standard price applies once the day's pool is used.

    Other promotional free daily generations remain web/app-only. Failed

    generations are never charged.


    **Rate limits.** Requests are limited per minute: **600 requests/min per API

    key** and **1200 requests/min per source IP** (defaults; subject to tuning).

    Every response carries `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`, and

    `X-RateLimit-Reset` (seconds until the window resets). Exceeding a limit

    returns HTTP `429` with a `Retry-After` header — wait that long before

    retrying. Rejected requests still count against the window, so a tight retry

    loop keeps you limited; back off instead. Generation jobs additionally have
    a

    per-plan concurrency cap (the same one as the web workshop), independent of

    these request limits. `POST /v1/uploads` also has a dedicated **60
    uploads/min

    per account** cap (it's free/unmetered) on top of these limits.
  title: BudgetPixel API
  version: '2026-06-20'
servers:
  - description: Production
    url: https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - description: Account and credit balance
    name: Account
  - description: Discover available models and pricing
    name: Models
  - description: Upload input media for image/video generation
    name: Uploads
  - description: Image job status
    name: Images
  - description: FLUX image models
    name: Black Forest Labs
  - description: SeeDream image models
    name: Bytedance
  - description: Video job status
    name: Videos
  - description: Kuaishou Kling video models
    name: Kling
  - description: SeeDance video models
    name: ByteDance (SeeDance)
  - description: Music and sound-effect job status
    name: Audios
  - description: Music generation models
    name: Music
  - description: Text-to-sound-effect models (priced per second)
    name: Sound Effects
  - description: Format conversion for images, video, and audio
    name: Conversions
  - description: Publish posts to your BudgetPixel feed
    name: Social
  - description: Content moderation — NSFW rating and CSAM detection
    name: Moderation
  - description: Content classification — music genre detection
    name: Classification
paths:
  /audios/sonilo-video-sfx:
    post:
      tags:
        - Sound Effects
      summary: Generate sound effect with Sonilo Video SFX
      description: >-
        Sonilo video-to-sound-effect — frame-accurate Foley, ambience, impacts
        and action sounds synced to the visible events of an input video (up to
        6 minutes). Returns the SFX track (`audio_url`, MP3 or WAV) and the
        video with the effects mixed in (`video_url`). Priced per second of the
        input video's measured duration (whole seconds, 3-second minimum) — see
        GET /v1/models for the rate.


        **Asynchronous.** Returns a job `id` (nothing is generated yet in this
        response). Poll [`GET
        /v1/audios/{id}`](/api-reference/audios/get-music-job-status) until
        `status` is `succeeded` — the SFX track is that response's `audio_url`
        and the input video with the effects mixed in is its `video_url`.
        Charged per second of the input video's measured duration (whole
        seconds, 3-second minimum; rate in `GET /v1/models`) on success only.
      operationId: createAudio_sonilo_video_sfx
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              properties:
                format:
                  default: mp3
                  description: Output audio format of the SFX track.
                  enum:
                    - mp3
                    - wav
                  type: string
                prompt:
                  description: >-
                    Optional direction for the sound design (up to 1000
                    characters), e.g. "realistic Foley and ambience, no music".
                  type: string
                video:
                  description: >-
                    The input video (MP4/WebM, up to 360 seconds, 30 MB
                    remote-fetch cap). A public video URL, an uploaded-file URL
                    from POST /v1/uploads, a data URI, or raw base64. Its
                    duration is measured server-side and is the billing basis.
                  type: string
              required:
                - video
              type: object
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateAudioResponse'
          description: Job accepted.
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
components:
  schemas:
    CreateAudioResponse:
      properties:
        id:
          description: Opaque job id — use it to poll status.
          example: aud_a1b2c3d4e5f6
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
        model:
          type: string
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/JobStatus'
      type: object
    JobStatus:
      description: Lifecycle state. `succeeded`/`failed`/`timeout` are terminal.
      enum:
        - pending
        - starting
        - processing
        - completing
        - succeeded
        - failed
        - timeout
      type: string
    Error:
      properties:
        error:
          properties:
            code:
              description: Stable machine-readable code.
              example: model_not_available
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
            type:
              description: Error category.
              example: invalid_request_error
              type: string
          required:
            - type
            - code
            - message
          type: object
      required:
        - error
      type: object
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      description: The request was malformed or referenced an unavailable model.
    Unauthorized:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      description: Missing or invalid API key.
    Forbidden:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      description: Authenticated but not permitted (plan gate, ownership, restriction).
    TooManyRequests:
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      description: Rate or queue limit reached. Retry after a short delay.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      bearerFormat: bpx_live_*
      description: 'API key as a bearer token: Authorization: Bearer bpx_live_xxx'
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

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